This blog is dedicated to finding my mom’s biological family. I will be recording any kind of findings, dna matches, records that may help, non-id info, etc. If you have any information or would be willing to help in our search please contact me. Email: BornInNewOrleans@gmail.com

What We Know…

Adult Adoptee Name: Kyndall

DOB: October 5, 1968

Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana

Placing Agency: Protestant Home for Babies

Birth Mother Info:

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Name: Mary Sue Blackwell

Father of Mary: Joseph Edgar Blackwell

Mother of Mary: Cloanah Lehr

Birthplace: Mississippi

Lived in Louisiana at time of adoption.

Got married in Orange County, Texas in March of 1969 to Roger Dale Graves

Age at birth of child: 18

Eye Color: Green

Hair Color: Light Brown

Complexion: Fair

Education: High School Graduate – Central High School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana

The Adoption Petition record reports provided the following information on the birth family. Birth mother was eighteen years old. She was described as a girl of average height and weight and made a nice appearance. She was quite attractive and seemed to be a girl of average or better intelligence. Birth mother’s family always lived in a small town where her father, a storekeeper, died at the age of sixty. Birth mother was fourteen years of age when her mother remarried. Birth mother’s mother was age fifty when she remarried and was a housewife. She married a childless widower and the family moved to a larger city. Birth mother went on to complete high school. Birth mother had an older brother who was twenty-five years old and married; and a younger brother who was fourteen years old and in school.

Birth Father Info:

Age at birth of child: 19

Height: 6′

Eye Color: Brown

Hair Color: Light Brown

Race: Caucasian

Education: College Student

Birth father was nineteen years old, and a college student whom she dated a few times. He was nearly six feet tall, average height, weight, brown eyes and light brown hair. According to the information provided, he was not aware of the pregnancy, nor his parents.

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Hello, I have been watching and re watching your tutorial videos. I am helping my adoptee friend locate his birth parents. I have a question, if his DNA is linked to his closest match (predicted and cousin) whu wouldnt I get any shared ancestors? Its been 2 days. I think I may have done something incorrectly.

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